... of California Ukraine National identity Ethnic and regional divide Democracy Civic society Economy Corruption Power Conflict a common identity; (2) a country in an unfinished transition and degradation; (3) a divided society; and (4) Ukraine as a colony or wild capitalism . The analysis...

... the order in which the Russian regions gained a bi-lateral agreement with the federal centre, emphasizing the importance of ethnicity, religion and economy. We replicate his results, and provide an extension where we argue instead that the only significant determinants of the bi-lateral process have been...

... the gradual shrinking of non-market elements in the economy. The further market reforms in the 1990s do not reduce corruption so much as they merely alter its characteristics. Corruption is a kind of behaviour which responds to political and economic changes and hence whose forms vary with social climates...